The differences between the FSC and other certification schemes less stringent:

 

Criteria	FSC	OTHERS
Independent, entirely free from the pressures of the forest industry	YES	NO
Solid environmental standards	YES	NO
Solid standards to protect of local communities rights	YES	NO
Rigorous monitoring on products throughout the supply chain	YES	NO
Robust accreditation process	YES	NO
Certify forest destructive operations or violate indigenous rights	NO	YES

 

 

Recycle, buy recycled products and reduce paper consumption.

-> saves, on average, up to 17 trees
-> saves 3 cubic meters of landfill
-> saves 31.780 liters d'acqua
-> saves, on average, up to 17 trees
-> saves 3 cubic meters of landfill
-> saves 31.780 liters d'acqua
-> Saves 31,780 liters of water
-> Produces 75% less air pollution
-> Produces 35% less water pollution.
-> Save enough energy to supply a house for 6 months
-> Consumes half (57%) than the energy used to produce one ton of paper from virgin fiber

Recycled paper is usually bleached mechanically, without need of bleaching chemicals.

Also be FSC certified recycled paper (choose the 100% recycled), but the traditional certification for recycled paper is the Blue Angel.

Post-consumer recycled paper comes at the end of the entire life cycle (eg coming from the dumpster). Pre-consumer paper is produced by scraps which never reached the final consumer (eg newspapers, cuttings of typography, etc). Pre-consumer paper is basically recovery of raw materials).

Use less paper! In the last 50 years, global paper consumption has quadrupled, while consumption of printing paper has increased six-fold. Half of the trees killed by commercial purposes ends up in paper-based products. Yet much of this paper is wasted, while its production is linked to the destruction of forests, violations of human rights, pollution and emissions of greenhouse gases.
The advent of computers lead to increase the consume of paper, despite technological solutions such as electronic mail represents an excellent alternative to paper consumption.
10 per cent of world population (Western Europe and North America) consumes more than half of the paper produced in the world. European and U.S. paper consume six times more than the average. A large proportion of paper ends up in advertising and packaging. Your commitment to reduce your consumption of paper, not only will reduce your impact, but we'll help convince companies and governments, large wasteful of paper, to also reduce their consumption and waste.
Shrink!